NCAA Basketball Recruiting: 5 under the radar recruits who could be "one and done" for 2018-19 season

NCAA Basketball Recruiting: 5 under the radar recruits who could be “one and done” in 2018-19

SPRINGFIELD, MA - JANUARY 15: Montez Mathis #23 of the John Carroll School is fouled by Louis King #2 of Hudson Catholic High School during the 2018 Spalding Hoopall Classic at Blake Arena at Springfield College on January 15, 2018 in Springfield, Massachusetts. (Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images) /

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5. Dalano Banton, Western Kentucky

Head coach Rick Stansbury had a busy recruiting season this past year for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. He reeled in the 29th ranked recruiting class in 2018, pulling in 6-foot-10 big man Charles Bassey, five-star prospect and potential one-and-done prospect.

Bassey isn’t the only top recruit in the class, either. 6-foot-6, 190-pound point guard Dalano Banton, a Canadian native. Banton is the 92nd ranked recruit in the nation, according to 247Sports, in the 2018 recruiting class. He was originally a member of the 2019 recruiting class but he reclassified into this year’s, giving the Hilltoppers some versatility in the process.

Banton has the prototypical size and skill set of a point-forward and has the potential to show what he can do in college basketball in 2018-19. With Charles Bassey in the frontcourt, Banton has a go-to playmaker to rely heavily upon in the Conference USA. If the Hilltoppers make a deep run in March, look for Banton’s name to come up as a player that could make the leap to the next level.

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